Description: A collection of my notes, stories and research over the years.
A collection of my notes, stories and research over the years.
I and many of my friends have at times taken up meditation practices, or yoga practices, or other daily habits. These usually have a similar structure, where every day, for a specified amount of time, we task ourselves with honing a specific technique, gently building the muscles of the practice so we gradually but surely expand our abilities. In the 1976 essay “Learning to Work” Virginia Valian presents us with a similar structure. Instead of for a hobby though, she applies it to intellectual labor. While
Hopefully many of you are out there scheming on how to leverage the most recent advances in AI to create value for the world. Likely you plan on capturing some of that value. Generative models are amazing for supplementing creativity, but outside of generating text, images, and videos, one might be struck with the question about how else they could apply the amazing capabilities of these language models.